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FIRST REPORT, 



ADDRESS AND PROCEEDINGS 



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FEBRUARY, 1863 



PITTSBURGH: 

aiNTED BY W. S. UAVEN, CORNER OF WOOD AND THIRD STS 

1863. 



OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 






OF THE 



PITTSBURGH SANITARY COMMITTEE 



PRESIDENT . 

THOMAS BAKEWELL. 



VICE PRESIDENTS. 

REUBEN MILLER, F. R. BRUNOT. 



TREASURER. 

JAMES PARK, Jr. 



SECRETARY. 

JOSEPH R. HUNTER. 



MEMBERS. 



JOSHUA HANNA, 
JAMES I. BENNETT, 
R. C. LOOMIS, 
WM. M. SHINN, 
WILLIAM M'CREERY, 
C. W. BATCHELOR, 
WM. M. EDGAR, 
S. F. VON BONNHORST, 
A. S. BELL, 
GEORGE SHIRAS, Jr. 



THOMAS M. HOWE, 
ORMSBY PHILLIPS, 
G. L. B. FETTERMAN, 
JAMES O'CONNER, 
WILLIAM S. HAVEN, 
F. H. EATON, 
J. S. SLAGLE, 
M. B. L. CHILDS, 
D. M. LONG, 
W. W. WARD, 



JOSEPH DILWORTH. 

The list of Associate Managers will appear at an early date. 



STANDING COMMITTEES. 

C0M3IITTEE ON SUPPLIES. 

WILLIAM M'CREERY. R. C. LOOMIS, 



JOSHUA HANNA, 
F. R. BRUNOT, 



JOSEPH R. HUNTER, 
WM. M. EDGAR. 



COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. 

JAMES PARK, Jr. Treasurer. 
JAMES I. BENNETT, C. W. BATCHELOR. 



OF THE 

PITTSBURGH SANITARY COMMITTEE 

TO THE 

CITIZENS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 



Friends and Fellow Citizens: 

The near approach of the season for active military 
operations, and the impending conflict between the advancing 
armies, imperatively demand renewed exertions for providing 
an abundant supply of clothing and other necessaries for the 
relief of our sick and wounded volunteers. The Pittsburgh 
Sanitary Committee have, therefore, deemed it advisable to 
efl:ect a reorganization in a more permanent form, with in- 
creased resources, and with more efficient means for the col- 
lection of the contributions of their benevolent fellow-citi- 
zens, and their subsequent distribution among the sick aud 
wounded soldiers now in arms for the defense of their homes, 
firesides and families. 

In making this appeal to your patriotism and generosity, 
we disclaim all desire or intention to interfere wath the resour- 
ces of other organizatious for similar purposes, or to under- 
estimate their exertions. We gratefully acknowledge the la- 
bors of the Pittsburgh Subsistence Committee, their enter- 
prise in forwarding supplies after the battle of Murfreesboro, 
and their successful arrangements for cheering the hearts and 
recruiting the frames of more than a hundred thousand vol- 
unteers, by providing comfortable meals on their passage 
through the city. Nor do we wish to detract from the merito- 
rious services of the Christian Commission, or the Pennsylva- 
nia Soldier's Aid Society of "Washington. 

In accordance with these general views, the Committee pro- 
poses to distribute any contributions with which they may be 
favored, conformably to their most matured judgment, unless 
the donors should make any special appropriation thereof. The 



Committee, after a full consideration, have been induced to be- 
lieve that the United States Sanitary Commission, from its 
extensive correspondence and systematic arrangements, pre- 
sents the best agency for supplying the wants of the volun- 
teers, and therefore, 'that by a general co-operation with that ' 
institution, they will be able to produce a greater amount ot 
benefit from the contributions of their fellow citizens, than 
can be effected by any exclusively local arrangement. 

Among the advantages possessed by the Sanitary Commis- 
sion, the following may be enumerated : 

First. The sanction and encouragement which the Sanitary 
Commission has received from the President and other ofii- 
cers of the Government, while its national organization and 
official recognition give it fecilities for communication with 
distant points, and speedy and secure transportation thither of 
stores and supplies, which are not possessed hj any other or- 
ganization. 

Second. The large quantity of stores and supplies always in 
the depositories of the Commission, by which it is enabled to 
supply any sudden demand without the delay frequently at- 
tendant on collecting the provision for every emergencj^ as it 
may arise. 

Third. The numerous agencies and extensive correspond- 
ence of the Commission, which afford opportunities for ascer- 
taining the situation of regiments, and the location and con- 
dition of sick and wounded .soldiers, and communicating such 
information to inquiring friends, are far superior to those at- 
tainable by any other association. 

Fourth. The experience acquired by the agents of the Com- 
mission with regard to the most effectual means of relieving 
the pressing necessities of the sick and wounded, of their re- 
moval from the camp or the battle field to their appropriate 
hospital, and of providing for their wants and insuring kind 
treatment while there. 

Fifth. The attention paid by the medical advisors of the 
Commission to enforce all necessary means for preserving the 
health of the volunteers while in camp, by insisting on proper 
drainage, careful cleanliness, and other precautions for pre- 
venting those diseases frequently more fatal than the weapons 
of the enemy. 



We are aware that the system adopted by the Commission, 
by which the proceedings of this Committee would generally 
be governed, of distributing the stores and supplies intrusted 
to their care so as to administer relief to the most urgent ne- 
cessities of our soldiers, without regard to local affinities or 
individual preferences, involves in some degree the sacrifice 
of those laudable feelings which induce the mothers, wives 
and sisters of our land, while earnestly seeking to relieve the 
wants of those near and dear to them, fondly to believe that* 
their gifts would be more highly prized if the recipients of 
their bounty could distinctly recognize the source whence 
they were derived. Experience, however, has shown that, in 
numberless instances,packages of stores or clothing sent by indi- 
viduals or local societies, at heavy cost, to particular regiments 
or personal friends, have failed to reach their destination, and 
are now piled away by thousands in warehouses, while many 
have been opened and the contents appropriated by unworthy 
persons ; or if by fortunate accident they have arrived safely, 
the partial distribution of stores and delicacies has tended to 
produce emotions of envy and jealousy in the minds of those 
persons whose friends have been less able to administer to . 
their wants, more especially if the distribution of such sup- 
plies should be restricted to the volunteers from any one State 
or vicinity, while their sufiering comrades, equally worthy and 
needy, may feel themselves neglected. 

We confidently appeal to that ardent patriotism and expan- 
sive benevolence which has never been invoked in vain — ear- 
nestly entreating you to consider the necessities of those no- 
ble hearts who hazard their ^lives in your defense. Let them 
not languish and die for want of those comforts which you en- 
joy, and many of which might be spared from your abounding 
resources without inconvenience, while to one of our suffer- 
ing volunteers, a comfortable garment, or a meal of nourish- 
ing food, may prove the means of preserving a valuable life, 
and of restoring a son to his anxious mother, or a father to 
the bosom of his family. 

By order of the Committee. 

THOS. BAKEWELL, President. 



THE PITTSBURGH SAMTAM COMMITTEE. 



Immediately on receiving news of the battle of Shiloh, the 
Board of Trade and citizens of Pittsburgh resolved to send an 
expedition to the relief of the wounded, and appointed " The 
Pittsburgh Sanitary Committee" to carry into effect the patri- 
otic design. Two of the best Ohio steamers were chartered 
by the Committee, fitted out with the necessaiy medical and 
sanitary stores, and with thirty surgeons and nurses, started for 
Pittsburgh Landing, in charge of the chairman. The instruc- 
tions to the expedition were, to bring home as many as could 
be carried, that they might be nursed and caFcd for at the ex- 
pense of the citizens and without charge to the United States. 
When the expedition arrived at Pittsburgh Landing, it was too 
late to aid the wounded, most of whom had been already re- 
moved. About eighty were taken on board, and the steamers 
filled to their utmost capacity with the worst cases of the sick. 

The cost of the expedition, together with the establishment 
and maintenance of a hospital for those brought to the city, 
exclusive of a large quantity of stores and a generous contri- 
bution of quilts and blankets from the Cincinnati Committee, 
was about six thousand dollars. It is believed that hundreds 
of soldiers' lives were saved by it to bless the patriotic impulse 
that sent them relief. 

In anticipation of the battles before Richmond, another 
public meeting was held and the Committee re-appointed, 
with a few additional members. Sanitary stores were hastil}' 
collected, and a deputation of more than thirty surgeons 
and nurses from Pittsburgh and vicinity sent to the army of 
the Potomac. The cost of this expedition (many of the nurses 
being necessarily under pay). was about three thousand dollars, 
exclusive of sanitary stores. 



That the expenditure was amply remunerative in benefits 
to the suffering soldiers, we have abundant proof from them- 
selves as well as from official sources. A portion of the 
deputation were left at the hospitals at Fortress Monroe ; 
twenty-three went to Savage's Station, seven miles from Rich- 
mond. There were nearly two thousand of our sick and 
wounded at the station when it was abandoned by our army, 
and in a few days the number increased to twenty-five hun- 
dred. Twelve of the Pittsburgh deputation voluntarily re- 
mained with them and were captured by the enemy. Dr. 
John Swinburne, the U. S. surgeon in charge, commends their 
services in his ofiicial report to the government, and in a letter 
to the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania says: "But for the 
aid of Mr. Brunot and his corps, it would have been impossi- 
ble for me to accomplish what I did at Savage's Station." The 
expenditure for this expedition would have been a small price 
for one patriot's life. But for its aid hundreds would have 
perished. 

At the second Bull Run, at Antietara, and from time to 
time in the hospitals of this city and elsewhere, the Pittsburgh 
Sanitary Committee has been the medium of substantial relief 
to the suffering. It is now enlarged and reorganized, and 
more deeply than ever impressed with the important duties 
intrusted to it. 



Note. — In addition to the efforts of the Sanitary and Subsistence Committees, 
the liberality of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania has been constantly mani- 
fested through many other agencies. 



PLAN OF REORGANIZATION, 

ADOPTED FEBRUARY 18, 1863. 

Resolved, That in view of the increasing number of sick and wounded 
soldiers in our armies, and to anticipate the wants of the still greater in- 
crease which will result from active operations and severe battles in the 
spring, it is expedient for this Committee to engage with renewed energy 
in the work for which it was appointed, and to eflFect for this purpose a 
partial reorganization on the following plan : 

1st. The Sanitary Committee shall consist of a President, two Vice 
Presidents, a Treasurer, Secretary and twenty-one executive members, with 
as many associate managers as the Committee may appoint. Associate 
managers shall not be required to be present at all the sessions of the Com- 
mittee, and it shall only be necessary to notify them of general meetings 
— they may vote, when present, at any meeting of the Committee. The 
Committee may be called together at any time by the President, and on a 
vote of the Committee, or on the application of five associates, he may call 
a general meeting. 

2d. The following sub-committees shall be appointed by the President, 
viz : A Committee on Finance, consisting of three members, with power 
to appoint additional members should it be deemed necessary to canvass 
the city and vicinity. A Committee on Storeroom, sanitary stores, receiv- 
ing, shipping, &c., consisting of six. The President, on motion, shall ap- 
point such other committees as from time to time may be necessary. 

3d. This Committee will co-operate with, and aid as much as possible 
the United States Sanitary Commission, the Christian Commission, the 
Pennsylvania Soldiers' Aid Society in Washington, and the Pittsburgh 
Subsistence Committee — these agencies for the relief of the soldiers hav- 
ing our entire confidence. In the disposition of all the money and stores 
intrusted to us, we will use every precaution to see that the sick and 
wounded shall alone receive the benefit. 

4th. The Committee shall issue an address to the people of Western 
Pennsylvania, setting forth the importance of renewed activity in provi- 
ding for the sick and wounded; issue weekly, monthly or quarterly re" 
ports — and make such other publications as shall seem desirable. 



RESOLUTIONS. 

Resolved, That we earnestly solicit the co-operation of the Press and of 
the friend? of our country and the soldier, in Western Pennsylvania, and 
urge upon them the necessity of immediate and continuous diligence in 
providing for the comfort of the sick and wounded. 

Resolved, That the Clergy of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio 
are respectfully requested to bring this appeal of the Committee before 
their Congregations, by reading or otherwise, a? they may think best. 



All communications maybe addressed to Thomas Bakewell, Esq., 
President. 

Contributions of Clothing and other supplies may be addressed to Wm. 
M'Creery, Esq., No. 131 Second street. 

Donations of Money may be remitted to James Park, Jr., Esq., Trea- 
surer. 

Publications explaining the design and workings of the U. S. Sanitary 
Commission will be furnished to those who may desire them. 

All inquiries for information and advice will meet with prompt atten- 
tion. 



Mark all boxes, barrels and packages, to be intrusted to our care, 



PITTSBIRGH SANITARY COMMITTEE, 

Care WM. M'CREERY, Esq. 
No. 131 Second Street, 

From. PITTSBURGH. 

[Give name and address of the donor.] 



All freight charges will be paid on delivery in this city. 



SUPPLIES WANTED 



FOR THE 



HOSPITALS AND BATTLE FIELDS. 



Woolen Stirts, 
"Woolen Drawers, 
Woolen Socks, 
Slippers, 



CLOTHING. 

Cotton Shirts, 
Cotton Drawers, 

Loose Growns, flannel or double calico, 
Handkerchiefs and Towels. 
All of ordinary size and make. 

BEDDING. 



Sheets, 4 feet by 7, Bed Ticks, 7 feet by 3, 

Blankets, Pillow Ticks, 30 inches by 16, 

Quilts, Pillow Cases, 36 inches by 18, 

Comforters, Cushions, of hair or feathers. 

Only single beds are found in hospitals. 



EDIBLES. 



Dried Fruits of all kinds, 
Dried Berries of all kinds, 
Canned Fruits and Tomatoes, 
Pickles and Jellies, 
Wines, Brandy and Whiskey, 
Tea, Cocoa and Chocolate, 



Sago, Farina, Corn Starch, 
Rice, Oatmeal, Barley, 
Butter, in small firkins, 
Potatoes, Onions, and Vegetables of 
all kinds, in sacks and barrels. 



Entertaining Books, 
Magazines, 



READING MATTEK. 

Pictorial Papers, 
Stationery. 



Please place under the lid of each box a list of its contents, and send 
a duplicate list by mail, each of which should contain the name of the do- 
nor or Society contributing, with the name and post office address of one 
of its officers. 

Dried Fruits and Berries and Woolen Clothing are particularly needed; 

Reading matter is much desired. 

A prompt and public acknowledgment will be made of all contributions. 
Charges for transportation will be settled here. 



UNITED STATES SANITAM COMMISSION. 



The Commissioners appointed by the President of tlie 
United States : 

The Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D. .;D Prof. A. D. Bache, 
LL. D.; George W. Cullum, U. S. A.; Alexander E. Shiras, 
U. S. A.; Robert C. Wood, M. D., U. S. A.; William H. Van 
Buren, M. D.; Wolcott Gibbs, M. D.; Samuel G. Howe, M. D.; 
Cornelius R. Agnew, M. D.; Elisha Harris, M, D.; J. S. New- 
berry, M. D.; George T. Strong; Horace Binney, Jr.; the 
Right Rev. Thomas M. Clark, D. D.; the Hon. Joseph Holt; 
R. W. Burnett;, the Hon. Mark Skinner; Frederick Law 
Olmsted. 

President — Rev. H. W. Bellows, D. D., IS'ew York. 

General Secretary — F. L. Olmsted, Washington. 

Secretary of the Western Department — J. S. ITewberry, M. D., 
Louisville. 

The main efforts of tlie Sanitary Commission are directed — 

1. To maintain constant inspection of all the camps and 
hospitals by eminent medical men, for the prevention of sick- 
ness, the correction of evils, and the removal^ as far as possible, 
of the radical sources of suiFering. 

2. To prepare and widely distribute short but thorough Med- 
ical and Sanitary Papers for the guidance of medical and other 
officers. 

3. To afford Special Relief at the various " Soldiers' Homes" 
for the sick and wounded who are in transitu from camps and 
hospitals, and to aid discharged men to get their pay and to 
return to their families. 

4. To maintain, for the benefit of all, Hospital Directories, 
from which can be learned many particulars regarding any 
soldier in the General Hospitals. 



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5. To collect aud distribute the Supplies furnished by the 
homes of the land, among the sick and wounded in the hospi- 
tals and on the battle fields, where the need is greatest — a busi- 
ness requiring great labor and expense, and thorough system 
and organization. 

7. To make the general wants and condition of sick and 
wounded men a constant study, and strive, by influences on 
Government, on Congress, and the public, to secure such new 
laws, or general orders, or to make such a public opinion as 
will induce constant improvement in their condition. 

The plan of the Relief Service of the Sanitary Commissiou 
is — 

1. To secure, as far as practicable, reserves of hospital and 
ambulance supplies, in order to be prepared to act with effi- 
ciency in emergencies. 

2. To cover in its work, as far as practicable, the whole field 
of the war, dispensing supplies wherever most needed, to all 
in the service of the Union, without preference of state, arm, 
or rank, army or navy, volunteer or regular. 

3. To study the whole field, by means of carefully selected 
and trained medical inspectors, in order to determine where 
supplies are most needed, and to watch against their misuse. 

4. While administering to all pressing needs of the suffering, 
to carefully avoid relieving the ofiicials in charge in any un- 
necessary degree from their responsibiliiy, but to do all that is 
possible to secure his full rights to the soldier, unable to help 
himself. 

5. To cordially co-operate, as far as practicable, with the 
hospital service of the Grovernment, endeavoring to supple- 
ment, never to supplant it. 



NOTICES OF U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION. 



The Sanitary Commission is doing a work of great human- 
ity, and of direct practical value to the nation, in this time of 
its trial. It is entitled to the gratitude and the contidence of 
the people, and I trust it will be generously supported. There 
, is no agency through which voluntary offerings of patriotism 
can he more effectively made. 

A. LINCOLN. 

Headquarteks Department of the Cumberland, 
MuRFREESBORo, February 3, 1863. 

The General Commanding presents his warmest acknowl- 
edgments to the friends of the soldiers of this army, whose 
generous sympathy with the suffering of the sick and wounded 
has induced them to send for their comfort numerous sanitary 
supplies, which are continually arriving by the hands of indi- 
viduals and charitable societies. While he highly appreciates 
and does not undervalue the charities which have been lavished 
on this army, experience has demonstrated the importance of 
system and impartiality, as well as judgment and economy, in 
the forwarding and distribution of these supplies. In all these 
respects the United States Sanitary Commission stands unri- 
valed. Its organization, experience and large facilities for the 
work are such, that the General does not hesitate to recom- 
mend, in the most urgent manner, all those who desire to send 
sanitary supplies, to confide them to the care of this Commis- 
sion. They will thus insure the supplies reaching their desti- 
nation without wastage or expense of agents or transportation, 
and their being distributed in a judicious manner, without dis- 
order or interference with the regulations and usages, of the 
service. 

This Commission acts in full concert with the Medical De- 
partment of the army, and enjoys its confidence. It is thus en- 
abled, with few agents, to do a large amount of good at the 
proper time and in the proper way. Ever since the "battle of 
Stone's River, it has distributed a surprisingly large amount of 



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clothing, lint, bandages and bedding, as well as milk, concen- 
trated beef, fruit and other sanitary stores essential to the re- 
covery of the sicli and wounded, 

W. S. EOSECRANS, 

JHaJ. Gen., Comd'g. Dep't. 

Says Dr. Bliss, who was Medical Inspector of Division on 
the Peninsula : 

"I say to every body, work for the relief of the sick and 
wounded soldiers, through the agency of the Sanitary Commis- 
sion. I know their action ; wherever I have been they have 
come with their aid; and whatever I have needed they have 
given me, if they had it. It is the best way to help the sufler- 
ing soldiers. There are piles of boxes, and the ruins of goods, 
lying about here in the District, and in Virginia, sent bysome- 
hody and to somebody, but they have failed to reach their desti- 
nation, and are wasted and lost. The Sanitary Commission 
puts the goods committed to it, right where they are needed." 

These Soldiers' Aid Societies in nearly all the cities both of 
the East and West, as the result of experience gained in other 
modes of reaching their object, now avail themselves of the ad- 
vantages and facilities presented by the Sanitary Commission. 

From report to Buffalo Aid Society by Delegates sent to visit the U. 
S. Hospitals and the agencies of the Sanitary (Jommission. 

1 think there is no large business firm in Buffalo that con- 
ducts its affairs with a more careful method than does this 
Sanitary Commission. I looked through their books, and 
went to see the whole operation of their method. I saw their 
depots, and their agents, at Washington ; and by the way, I 
felt ashamed, when I saw these agents, so capable, so faithful, 
many of them superior men, nobly giving their services for 
small remuneration, or even gratuitously; to_ think of suspi- 
cions entertained, and rumors in circulation. I saw the goods 
in every step of their transit, and I say it is impossible that 
there should be much loss or waste of goods, while passing from 
the. homes of the givers to the hospitals and battle fields where 
the sick and wounded are. 

This is the method at Washington. The Aid Society at 



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Buffalo, for instance, prepares ten cases of goods, marks them 
for Washington, and sends them by Express. A letter is sent 
to Washington to inform the Commission of the sending of the 
cases and of their marks and contents. This letter is received 
at Washington, and copied into a book. An agent with his 
eye upon his book, watches arrivals of goods at the rail road, 
and sees to the removal of all that comes to the Commission's 
warehouse ; and if all do not appear, the coming of which has 
been notified, the agent causes them to be looked after ; and 
only one box of 25,000 is known to be lost ! The agent at the 
rail road keeps his book. Then the agent at the warehouse 
keeps a set of books, in which it appears what has arrived, and 
the cases are generally repacked, and put in order to be sent 
out, and these are carried to the disbursing depot, and the 
agent there enters them upon his books ; now these several 
books are brought together at the main ofiiee, checking and 
balancing each other ; and every morning a printed schedule 
sheet is filled out showing goods on hand, what, and how 
much, of each and every article. 

And now every day the requisitions come into the ofiiee 
from the surgeons of hospitals, 'camps, regiments, or medical 
directors on battle fields. The doors of the Commission are 
op*en to all, and they grant goods to fill these requisitions, so 
far as they can, unless they have reason for suspecting the wis- 
dom of the reqnisitiou. iSo the goods go out every day to fill 
these repuisitions, to load vessels with supplies for distant 
hospitals, at Fortress Monroe, or farther South, and to meet 
the cases of individual sufi'ering that come every day to the 
ofiiee. The goods go out as fast as they come from week to 
week. 

Froyn a receMt Philadelphia Circular. 

We are fully convinced that the medium of the Sanitary 
Commission is the best, if not the only safe way of reaching 
the sick and wounded of the army, with anything like system. 
Contributions to its stores can always be made eflective, as its 
thorough national organization and ofiicial recognition by the 
military authorities, give it facilities for communication with 
and transportation to distant points, possessed by no other 
organization ; while one almost necessary result of sending 



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supplies through the numerous well-meaning independent re- 
lief societies is, that some localities are over-burdened with 
useful stores, while other places are comparatively destitute. 

Frora a recent circular of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 
Headquarters Cleveland. 

The establishment of the headquarters of the Western De- 
partment of the United States Sanitary Commission at Louis- 
ville has greatly increased our facilities for the transmission of 
goods to hospital localities in Kentucky and Tennessee, and 
we can assure our contributing Branches that our system of 
shipment and distribution is such as to secure the most satis- 
factory results. Our goods are met by an agent at Cincinnati, 
reshipped and accompanied to their destination, where they 
are disbursed under the careful eye of an experienced and 
faithfal Sanitary Inspector, from whom we obtain full report 
of the distribution. The letters which we append to this cir- 
cular will show the success which has attended the efibrts 
of this Society, while they tell a sad tale of the yet unsupplied 
wants of hundreds of our suffering friends and brothers, whose 
cries ascending from hard-foilght tields, or ill-conditioned hos- 
pitals, should incite our utmost exertions. 

# 
JfYom a tract by the President of the V. S. Sanitary Commission. 

The point to be kept steadily in view, is, that the sum of 
misery is confessedly beyond all that the Medical Department 
and the Sanitary Commission can do, with their present re- 
sources, and that it is not froni any want of zeal or labor on 
their part that more is not accomplished, but simply because 
the work is larger than their means and instrumentalities. Do 
not wonder then at the stories of neglect, of suffering, of want, 
you hear from soldiers and from hospitals. They may, any of 
them, be true, and neither of us to blame. You must not 
measure either the Medical Department or the Sanitary Com- 
mission by what they do not do — but by what they do ! None 
can be so well aware as they of what remains to be done. If 
you would alleviate this misery and want, send the Sanitary 
Commission larger supplies. This is the only remedy you 
have. Make the supplies in money and goods adequate, and 
you shall have no reason to complain. 



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